“When people questioned this, the priests simply said, The world has changed. We must change with it.
You can imagine how well that went over.”
Source: The Broken Kingdoms (2011), Chapter 4 “Frustration” (watercolor) (p. 60)
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2009, First Inaugural Address (January 2009)
“If you can change people's minds — you can change the world.”
“We are what we think. To change how people act, we must change what they believe.”
His Long War: E Howard Hunt's American Spy (2007)
Context: We have an obligation to one another, responsibilities and trusts. That does not mean we must be pigeons, that we must be exploited. But it does mean that we should look out for one another when and as much as we can; and that we have a personal responsibility for our behavior; and that our behavior has consequences of a very real and profound nature. We are not powerless. We have tremendous potential for good or ill. How we choose to use that power is up to us; but first we must choose to use it. We're told every day, "You can't change the world." But the world is changing every day. Only question is... who's doing it? You or somebody else?
The argument is really no better than that.
"The First-cause Argument"
1920s, Why I Am Not a Christian (1927)
“Things changed, people changed, and the world went rolling along right outside the window.”
Source: Message in a Bottle